Feb. 20th 2012
This week, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (a possible contender for vice president on the Republican ticket) wrote a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. Requiring ultrasounds before abortions has become one of the main tactics of the anti-abortion movement. If passed, Virginia will become the eighth state to require this. People against abortion hope that having an ultrasound will cause women to change their minds, but people who are pro- abortion feel it as an invasion of privacy. The Senate has adopted the bill this month.
Tarina Keene, executive director of Naral Pro-Choice Virginia responded by saying “This is a forced bodily intrusion, and it could be going against a doctor’s better judgment. If a woman says she doesn’t want to have an ultrasound, she shouldn’t have to have one.”
Delegate Bob Marshall (Rep.) says that this argument does not ring true because the abortion itself is far more invasive.
“The intrusion is already taking place,” he said.
I agree with the bill (the arguments against it are just pathetic.) For one, Women wanting to get abortions might realize that there is a living, human being inside them. A baby’s heart starts beating 18 days after conception. Maybe when these women see that their baby is just as alive as them, they will change their minds. Another great thing about the bill is that programs like Planned Parenthood will suffer from it.
(Picture of a 3D ultrasound.)
When my dad was in medical school, students had the choice to go to an abortion clinic on campus to practice exams. My dad chose to go to try to talk women out of having abortions. Unfortunately, all of the women there chose to have an abortion, and my dad had to watch one of the abortions. He said it was the most horrible and saddest thing he has ever witnessed.
Abortion is wrong, and it is murder. I don’t understand how people don’t see that.
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Good job Hannah!